Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1929, Page 2

PLANS FOR PARADE WILL BE RETAINED Gen. Stephan Says Inaugural; March Will Not Be Cur- tailed in Any Way. The inaugural parade—most spec- tacular of the civic ceremonies to ac- company the inaugurations of Herbert | Hoover and Charles Curtis—will not be ! curtailed, either in length or in time: required to pass, Gen. Anton Stephan, chairman of the parade committee, an- | nounced today. | After going over in detail with Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, chairman of the inaugural committee. all the phases of the conference Col. Grant had with Mr. Hoover last Tuesday, Gen. Stephan de- clared today that the parade committee will hold. to its plans of more than a fortnight's standing. including all the units that have been included in the parade since the pians became definite. | This means, according to Gen. Stephan’s opinion, that the District of Columbia National Guard unit, about whose participation there had been some doubt, will be included in the line | of march. Although the parade had| been planned to be about five miles in length and to take about three hours to pass a given point, it can be con- tracted by moving its units closer to- gether to fall well within the two-hour limit set by Mr. Hoover. State floats will be invited unofficially, the commit- tee announced, as the routine of passing State appropriations for this matter re- a greater length of time than | Comdr. Byrd delivering radio spec City of New York left for the great ad: VENING STAR. WASHINGTON., D. €., FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1929. GOOD-BY TO THE WORLD ch at Dunedin, New Zealand, before the venture in the Antarctic ice. ide World Photo. SOOTHSAYER FINED, qu the inaugural committee can give. Stands to Seat 45,000, | The impressive cavaleade, led by the | new President, and comprising units | from all the military services, will move | down Pennsylvania avenue toward the | White House between rows of wooden | grandstands, which will provide both in the lower and upper stretches of the | historic Avenue seats for nea 5.000 The exact figures on seating tv. as given out by Charles H. Thompkins, chairman of the grand- stand committee, are for accommoda- tions to seat 44100 persons. Stands| along the Avenue west of Thirteenth | street to Seventeenth street, where the | parade will disband, are to be erected ! on the responsibility of the committee, | while those from Thirteenth street east to the Peace Monument will be put up ractors who will bid for the job. The type of stand and the prices to be | charged for seats will be determined at | & meeting early next week. Railroad companies operating into | Washington and connecting with those roads which run to the Capitol have made special fare concessions to aid in bringing the expected throng of people | to Washington for the inaugural. Henry | B. Spencer, chairman of the transpor-; tation commitiee, and former fuel ad-| ministrator, announced that the round- trip fare from points east of the Missis- sippi to Washington would be only three-fourths of the normal round-trip rate, or a fare and a half. Arrange- ments are also being made with roads west of the Mississippi for rate conces- sions of similar character. In order that accommodations may be found for all who will not stop at hotels, Mrs. Virginia White Speel, chair- man of the committee on housing and hospitality, is anxious that requests for reservations for the inaugural period be made as early as possible. Mrs. Speel is working on the #heory that her com- mittee may be galled upon to handle 150,000 guests fluring the three days beginning March 2. Grandstand Group Named. Work on the grandstands is expected to begin about two weeks prior to the tnauguration. Mr. Tompkins announced the personnel of the grandstand com- mittee as follows: Gen. Mason M. Pat- Tick, vice chairman in charge of con: tracts and design; John G. Scharf, vil chairman in charge of construction; Engineer Commissioner William B. Ladue, Maj. D. A. Davison, Assistant Engineer Commissioner; Col. John W. Oehmann, inspector of buildings; George S. Watson, chief engineer Fire Depart- | ment; L. A. Simon of the supervising | architect’s office, E. G. Marsh, engineer | Office of Public Buildings and Public Works; W. B. Putnam, president Put- nam Construction Co.; George E. Wyne, builder; F. F. Gillen, general superin- tendent of Charles H. Tompkins Co. and Leo Raywid, designing engincer of the Tompkins company. Additional contributions to the in- sugural guarantee fund today follow: Isadore Freund, $25; Edward E. Clement, $50: Dr. Cloyd H. Marvin, $200; Larz Anderson, $500; C. F. R. Ogllby, $100: Charles Moore, $25; Carl Hammel, $25; Dr. Frank W. Ballou, $25; ‘Walter M. Ballard Co., $100; Henry P. Blair, $250; G. N. Everett, $250; Capi- tal Traction Co., $1,000; The Hecht Co., $1,000; Samuel J. Prescott Co. Inc., $500; Robert N. Harper, $200; Meye! Shop, $100; Mrs. Sydney Cloman, $100 O. H. P. Johnson, $100; C. K. Berry. man, $50; H. Zirkin & Sons, Inc., $50; A. Coulter Wells, $25, and Walter A, Brown, $100. —_— SMALL RITES TOMORROW Services for Union Army Veteran Will Be Private. | Funeral services for William F. Small, 84, Union Army veteran and retired | lawyer, who died at his home, 1315 Euclid street, Wednesday, will be con- | ducted at the residence tomorrow after- | noon at 1:30 o'clock. = Services will be private. Interment will be in Arlington Cemetery. Mr. Small was retired from the prac- | tice of law about 10 years ago, was| past commander of Burnside ' Post, | G. A. R, and was a founder and first | president of the St. Andrews Scottish | Society. He was commended for! bravery and for rendering ‘“extra hazardous” service while serving as a | dispatch bearer and sergeant major | under Gen. Kilpatrick. | ce | 5 SENTENCED TO JAL Colored Man’s “Medlicine™ for “Breaking Spells” Bared by Maid. A trial suggestive of the “pow-wow™ case at York, Pa., was heard in the Di trict of Columbia branch of Police Cou this morning and resulted in the con- viction of William L. George, colored, 23, of the first block of I street north- | east, after Judge John P. McMahon had rebuked the defendant, who styles himself as “professor,” for “posing as a soothsayer, palmist and crystal gazer, who imposes on the superstitious peo- ple around town who are foolish enough to believe he can cast speils on them- selves and others.” George was convicted for practicing pharmacy without a right and sen- tenced to 180 days in jail and fined $200, in default of which he will have to serve 180 days more. In_imposing the maximum penalty, Judge McMahon characterized the case as the “most ag- gravating one I have ever heard.” Held for Jury Trial, Too. An additional charge of practicing medicine without a license was pre- ferred against the defendant, on which he was placed under $1,000 bond for trial by jury. George's cfforts to “cure” Teresa Patton, colored maid of a prominent local jurist, who accompanied Detec- tives Sanders and Mansfield of the headquarters narcotic squad in gather- ing evidence, led to his arrest. The maid first visited George to cure a sickness which she told him +was brought on by a spell cast over her by another colored maid, who was jealous of her job. The professor confirmed her suspicions that the sickness was caused by her rival “sprinkling down” powder to make Teresa sick, accorcdirg to the testimony. Pays $50 for Medicine. She paid $50 for two pink pills and bottle of herbs, which the professor aid she must take, otherwise snakes and frogs would grow inside of her, ac- cording to testimony. When the treatment failed to relieve the patient she returned and paid $45 more for two bottles of medicine, one of which was to be poured, nine drops at a time, on her head, after the hair had been carefully parted in the center. A printed card on which George claims to have been born with super- natural powers and to be the world’s greatest palmist and crystal gazer was ntreduced in evidence. INYE TELLS HOOVER FIGHT WILL FOLLOW MEL'.ON RENAMING (Continued From First Page). Minnesota and Eaton of New Jersey. The recently-elected Senator Golds- borough of Maryland, also was siated to call on the President-elect. Scnator Nye, after his conference with Mr. Hoover, said he was convinced that a special session of Congress would be called at an early date if the present Congress fails to put through an agri- tural program by March 4. The cnator pointed out that the pending McNary bill has not yet been considered by the Senate committee on agriculture. He added that if it should be reported |to the Senate in its present form it would meet endless debate. Nye Opposes Mellon. Nye said he was satisfied the Hoover program of farm relief would not an- tagonize the farm co-operatives now operating. Senator Nye said he be- lieved Mr. Hoover would prove a friend to the co-operatives. Senator Nye said | he made no recommendations for ap- pointment to the cabinet. He did, how- ever, oppose the appointment of Secre- tary Mellon to succeed himself as Sec- retary of the Treasury. The name of Louis S. Cates, Salt Lake City, general manager of the Utah Copper Co., was mentioned today as a possible choice for Secretary of the In- terfor. It was understood he had the backing of Senator Smoor of Utah. December Circulation Daily. .. 103,595‘ Sunday, 109,777 vertising Manazer SUNDAY STAR, actual numner the paper named sold and dis- tributed d the month of December, A. 1928, was as follows 41,11 | prize have been members of the society. | The scroll was presented to Mr. Hoo- | Total daily net circulat Average daily net paid on 2 n circulation, 102,606 of copies for Daily average net circulation SUNDAY. Days. Bs. ..o Less adjustments . net cireu paid Sunday cireula- E 109,360 r of copies for seiv- T HERRON Manager. in 4o Subsc: tbed before me Uhis 1tk diyoof (Beal) R F. YOUNT, Notary Puolic. Mr. Cales was manager of the Hoover | pre-convention campaign in Utah. Scroll Is Presented. The American Philosophical Society, 1of which Mr. Hoover has been a mem- ber since 1918, today presented to the President-elect a scroll congratulating him upon his election to the presidency. | The socicty is the oldest learned society |in the Uniied States. It was establishe in Philadclphia by Benjamin Franklin in 1727 for “the promoticn of useful knowledge.” Mr. Hoover is the ninth member of the soclety to be elected | President. other members of the soclety who have become President ar Washington, John Adam Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Joh Quiney Adams, James Buchanan, U Grant and Woodrow Wilson ‘Three Presidents became members of sequent to their election | They were Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt and Wil- the society to the presidency. liam Howard Taft. Al seven of the Americans who have won the Nobel i | er by the following committee: man Cross, Dr. Arthur L. Da; Francis X. Dercum, Dr. Arthi W ! Goodspeed, Dr. David Jayne Hill, Dr 535 | Vernon Kellogg, Dr. John C. Merriam, | pr 2 | Dr. John A. Miller, Dr. Leo S. Rowe, | hiCrace of his will, Ell Kirk Price, J. B. Lippincolt and | Lenry G. Bryant. Massachusétts is putting in a bid for ! membership in_the Hoovir Representative Treadway yesterday rec ommended to Mr. Hoove t he re ain William F. Whiting as Commerce, and it is und vstoo: Senator Gillett a for the present Secretary of Commerc when he called at the Hoover headquar: ters yesterday. The appointment of t Dr. Charles G. Abbot, Dr. Cyrus Ad- ler, Dr. Arthur P. Brubaker, Dr. Whit- Dr. cabinet, put in a good word {ANTI-WAR TREATY ATTACK LAUNCHED IN SENATE BY REED | (Continued From First Page). v with your mouths? Put something in that you say is there, but make it plain. How can any reasoning deny | such a proposition? ~We are not asking anything which will require this docu- ment to be returned to the other na- tions for reconsideration. “I say I would bz ashamed if a lawyer to hide from a client the im- plications of a contract I had written for him.” | Map Ts Exhibited. As he spoke, Senator Reed had be- fore him on an easel a large map of the world, showing the British pos- sessions and spheres of interest in bright red coloring. “What the nations of the world have not been able to accomplish in all time,” Reed declared, “is now proposed to be done by the magic stroke of Mr. Kellogg's pen. “On its face the treaty would do away with all wars. but the negotia- tions had scarcely begun when Mr. Kel- iogg began to admit exceptions. I wish to call your attention to those excep- tions so we can see what is left of this treaty after we have considered them.” Admits Nations’ Rights. He listed the wars which would be | excepted from operation of the pact— | defensive wars and those involving the League of Nations and Locarno treaties. In addition. he saide certain zones of influence are to be excepted, and the right is not to be denied a country to protect its trade and nationals, and, lastly, that each nation was to be its own judge of what constituted self- defense. He attributed these exceptions to the efforts of Great Britain during the negotiations. Then, walking to his | map, the Senator detailed the scat- tered world-wide defenses of Great Britain, dwelling particularly upon Canada, Bermuda, Jamaica and other points near the United States. In five hours’ time he declared, Great Bl’ltagn could destroy the Panama Canal. | | Assails Pacifists. “And in the negotiations for this treaty,” Senator Reed shouted, strik- ing the map with his pointer, “Great Britain reserved these as spheres of her interest in which she would not be bound by the treaty. This is what Great Britain says is not in the treaty and she reserves complete freedom of action. “And the mollycoddles of this country say we shall sit quiet and not protect ' the Monroe Doctrine so some South | American country will sign the treaty.” | If this country is ever destroyed, Reed | declared, it will be done by the pacifists who “go around shouting ‘Peace, peace, peace,” when there is no peace of the kind they are talking about.” Bingham Makes Plea. During consideration of the treaty yesterday afternoon Senator Bingham, Republican, of Connecticut, made a plea that the committee should file a report to define the exact meaning of the pact so that this country could not be ac- cused of bad faith if at some future time it should be found necessary to take steps to protect the lives of citi- zens in foreign countries. ‘The Connecticut Senator said he was not arguing for or against the treaty, but wanted to emphasize that there | are honest differences of opinion among many Americans as to what the treaty means, He said there are thousands of good American citizens who do not agree “that if we ratify this treaty we can then protect American lives and property as we have done in the past by using our gunboats and marines, without going to war, without using force, just as we did in the Boxer rebel- lion, when we sent out battalions and | our warships to Tientsin and then marched overland to Peking.” Senator Bingham said the meaning of the treaty had been explained by members in the debate, but pointed out that, while the Supreme Court has ruled the statements of a Senator or Repre- sentative made on the floor of either house cannot be used in interpreting a | law in the courts and is not authori- | tative as to the meaning of a law, a report of a congressional committee is {evidence in the courts as to what a law means. BLOWS WHISTLE T0 CALL POLICE, TEARS CELL COTS| Having attracted police attention to himself by blowing a police whistle near his place of employment in a grocery | tore in the 1400 block of U street, Roy F. Harris yesterday was locked up | in the eight precinct. There he tore up two cell cots. Policeman C. B. McDonald told Judge ! 3 Schuldt that Harris was so/ 11d” when they took him to the sta- | tion house he tore up a cell cot. Placed | n another cell, he tore up the second cot, according to the officer. | The court imposed a fine of $10 for intoxication and a similar fine for de- stroying private property. | | | ! | i | H. C. MOSES LEFT $50,000. Widow Given Life Use of Estate— Files Probate Petition. Henry C. Moses, merchant, who died December 15, left an estate valued in excess of $50,000, by the petition of his widow, Mrs. Edith Mann Moses, for the Under the terms of that document the widow is given life use of the entire estate, which at | her death goes to the children, H. Clark Moses and Charles H. Moses. Mrs. Moses is named as executrix. 1 o T Mr. Whiting to the Hoover cabinet would be satisfactory to President Cool- idge, it is said, and there is reason to believe that Mr. Whiting would welcome the appointment e 3 jand | raising of the SOIOURNERS VOTE FOR CRUISER BILL Officers’ Organization Pre- sents Resolution to Presi- dent Coolidge. Close upon the heels of the meetings here of the pacifist groups, who have | taken their fling at the Navy cruiser bill now pending in the Senate, thr National Sojourners, an organization of Masonic war veteran officers, today mc to take up the battle for the bill. ‘The first gun in the defense of the cruiser bill was fired when the com- mittee of thirty-three and the national officers of the Sojourners, representing the 94 component bodies of the organi- zation, passed a resolution in closed session at the Mayflower Hotel this morning commending President Cool- idge for his espousal of the cruiser bill ing the imperative need for the s at once. Peace pact or no peace pact, the situation is such the passage of the 15- cruiser bill at once is imperative for the preservation of our dignity among the nations when sitting at a council table, the protection of our nationals abroad | when needed, the safety of our great trade and commerce on the seven seas, and we call on all patriotic citizens to come to a realization of present condi- tions and assist in thwarting interests well meaning or ctherwise whose ac- tions in our ifudgment are dangerou to the perpetuation of American insti- tutions.™ Presented to President. The resolution was presented Presi- dent Cooli at the White House this afternoon by the committee of thirty- three and the national officers. said, in part: “We heartily indorse the expressions of our President, Calvin Coolidge, made i is Armistice day address as fol- ‘We made altogether the heaviest sacrifice in apping work, which was already in existence. That should for- ever remain not only a satisfaction to ourselves, but a demonstration to others of our good faith in advocating the principle of limitation,’ and ‘it is obvious that eliminating all competi- tion, worid standards of defense re- quire us to have more cruisers.’ “We view with alarm the past and present actions of certain groups of | who are attempting to inte h such proper measures of na- tonal defense and national security as are required by the Constitution of the United States,” the resolution added. Under the sponsorship of the So- journers, a gathering of representatives of patriotic organizations representing practically the entire organized pro- cruiser sentiment in the Nation was being held this afternoon at the May- flower Hotel to draft a resolution in favor of the passage of the cruiser bill for presentation to the naval affairs committee of the Senate. The cruiser question took up prac- tically the entire time of the closed ses- | sion of the committee at the Mayflower this morning. The organization is here in semi-annual session to discuss the vital matters of national impert which | have come up in the past half year. Crime Question Studied. ‘The Nation-wide crime question came in for discussion this morning, shortly before the Sojourners adjourned to pay their respects to President Coolidze. Methods of checking crime through the standard of juries throughout the Nation, through edcu- cation of the citizenry as to their obligations to accept and willingly per- form jury duty were discussed and a resolution was being drafted for sub- mission to the component organization of the national body urging the educa- tion of the people on jury dury. Paul V. McNutt, national commander of the American Legion, will be the principal speaker at the annual ban- quet of the local chapter of the Na- tional Sojourners, to be held at the | Mayflower tonight. The national officers | and committee of thirty-three will be | guests at the banquet. Comdr. McNu:t | will speak on national defense and se- curity, and will particularly take up the cruiser question. In an address beforer the War College at Washington Barracks this morning Comdr. McNutt declared that the Army and Navy justify their existence as edu- cational institutions for the youth of the Nation, if for no other reasen. Comdr. McNutt scored the pacifist groups which have been active against the cruiser bill and other items of na- tional expenditure for defense and security, declaring the uninformed con- stitute the greatest foes of adequate | preparedness, | “One of the mest valuable contribu- tions than an individual can make to the canuse ol national security,” he said, “is to correct the propaganda and false statements of those who misin- formed or who do not have the good of the country at heart. “Weakness because of lack of armies and navies is more likely to invite at- tack, The Army and Na., are instru- ments or peace. They are called into action only after statesmen and poli- ticians have failed in their efforts to preserve peace. They are called into action o egain restore peace.” At the Sojourners’ banquet toright, representatives of the principal pro- armament organizations will be guests. It UTILITY J0B DENIED BY MRS, SHERMAN Tells Commission She Has Never Written for Electric Light Association. By the Associated Pres Appearing as a voluntary witness in the Federal Trade Commission’s investi- gation of public utility power com- panies, Mrs. John D. Sherman, former president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, testified today that she had “never written any articles for the National Electric Light Association” and had “never been on the pay roll” of that organization. Reading a prepared statement in re- ply to testimony mentioning her, which hiad been given at a previous hearing, | Mrs, Sherman said: id: “The transcript of the hearings of September 19, 1928, on the investiga- tion of the Federal Trade Commission contained statements that either defi- | nitely deelaved or conveyed the impres- | sion that I had written articles for the Natlonal Electric Light Association, and was on the association’s pay roll for this purpose at a charge of $600 a month. I wish to make the following statement: “I have never written any articles for the National Electric Light Association. I am not now and I never have been | on the pay roll of the National Electric Light Association.” GEHRIG GETS HOMERS. KEY WEST, Fla.,, January 11 (#).— | Lou Gehrig has the satisfaction of | baing the first major leaguer to knock | one out of the park in 1929, Babe Ruth’s friendly rival and team- mate took the field before a game between a picked Key West team ana the Navy Champions from the U. 8. 8. Wright vesterday and knocked several out of the park. Key West trimmed the U. S. S. Wright, 9'to 7, in the first game cf the 1929 season. | | | { YORK WAIF FOUND | the boy to have every advantage. DETENTION HOUSE ~ LOCATION CHOSEN Four-Story Building Near the Police Court Leased by District Heads. The House of Detention will be locat- | ed at 310 Sixth street beginning Jan- i erday negotiated a lease for the ur-story building at this address, di- gonally across from the Police Cour Iding, for $11,000 annual rental. The 22. The District Commissioners | ires June 30, 1929, the end of the current fiscal with option to renew at the same year. The lease was signed after a dav of negotiation with Benjamin D. Fried- man, joint owner of the property with Jack Neistadt. One of the clau the instrument speci the city heads from placing any bars on the windows of the building. The move from the preseny quarters of the House of Detention at 908 B street southwest was made necessary by order of Justice Jennings Bailey, | District Supreme Court. signed Decem- | ber 21, 1928, and giving the Commis- | sioners one_month in which to cease | using the Southwest location for de- tention purposes. The order was grant- ed on the petition of neighbors who objected to the location of the insti- tution in a residential zone. The present plece of property is in a first commer- cial zone, and no protests against its use as a dentention home are expected. ally pre . WOMAN ARRESTED ON DRY CHARGES Raiders Pay Visit to Apart- ment—Make Other Seizures. Mrs. Lora Marmaduke, 24 years old. was arrested on charges of possession | and transportation of liquor, and four quarts of alleged whisky were seized in a raid made last night by Sergt. Oscar J. Letterman and members of his squad on an apartment in the building at 1635 R street. The raiders also seized a filing cabinet which, they claim, con- tains the names of patrons of the estab- lishment, Three nights ago the squad raided a house in the 3300 block of Sherman avenue and arrested Harrison Gordon, colored, on charges of sale and posses sion. While there, Sergt. Letterman| telephoned Mrs. Marmaduke's apart- ment and ordered four pints of whisky. In a short time. Bernard Miller, 21 years old, of the R strect address, ap- peared_with the liquor, police claim. Sergt. Letterman met him at the door | and placed him under arrest. A war- | rant was sworn out and the raid made | at 1635 R street. The raiders found Mrs. Marmaduke's husband ill in bed. No charge was placed against him, Mrs. Marmadul the third_precinct, under $1,500 bond. Another raid by the squad yesterday afternoon disclosed a 6-inch reinforced door in the rear of a notion the 1600 block Benning road northeast. A policeman, who was used as an undercover man by the squad, walked | into the store and ordered a half pint, of liquor from Bennie Goldman, one of the proprietors. Goldman, police | say, went to the rear of the store, rap- | ped on the door and a peep hole fiew | open and the order was transmitted to | David Eichner, the other partner, in ! the rear room. When the door opzned and a bottle was handed out, the police- man forced his way inside and backed | both Goldman and Fichner into a! corner. A quantity of alleged liquor was found in two 5-gallon sauce pans. Lelterman and his squad, waiting | outside the store, rushed in and ar-| rested the men. Both are charged with sale and possession. | Another raid made by the squad last | right netted two colored men and the | seizure of 83 quarts of alleged liguor. | The raid was in the 900 block Twenty- | was locked up at! but later released i seventh street. The.men arrested and charged with sale and possession are Silas Jefferson and Connie Mason. GUILTY OF MURDER! (Continued From First Page). home by the brutality of a step-father, John Curry had fallen under the in- fluence of another child, in mind but not in years, the bewitched witch doctor, John Blymyer. Blymyer had filled his mind with the weird superstitions of the primitive country people of this section of Pennsylvania. The night ad- venture in the haunted depths of Reh- meyers Valley, under Blymeyer's lead- ership, had appealed to his childish imagination. Curry had promised his lawyer, W. H. Van Baman, that he would tell the whole truth of that eerie murder and trust to the merey of the jury. Evident- ly he tried to, by no means minimizing his own part in the struggle with the muscular recluse farmer. He gave al- most the same explanation as Blymyer, that the three had gone to Rehmeyer's house to get a lock of his hair to break | a spell on the leader of the expedition and the Hess family and a book of magic known as “the long lost friend.” He insisted that he had signed a confes: sion only after Commonvealth Attorney | Herrmann had promised “that he would help me, which I took to mean that' he would get me out of this trouble.” Question Validity of Confession. Herrmann denied this, but Judge | Sherwood said the valldity of the con- fession was doubtful. Herrmann agreed to withdraw it, saying that he wanted Curry's mother, Mrs. Anna McLane, ; 32, but aged with years of work in fac- tories, told of the environment from which the child had come. She had been left a widow when he was 5 years | old and then had marrisd a man who “peat him and curssd him so that he ad to leave hom She herself had | been obliged to work and the boy had run wiid i1 the streets.” | “It 1s an indictment of our civiliza- tion,” said Attorney Van Baman in hi appeal, “that after 1900 years of Chris tianity, civilization can produce a 14- | year-old boy in such a predicament. boy i» hardly the product of him- olf. Left to the mercles of a step- father who from all accounts must have been a step-father, who can won- der that he fell under the influence of that monumental mass of ignorance in the mind of Blymer.” Blymer, 32. who instigated and led the witch-killing expedition, sat with his attorney and grinned at the re- telling ¢f the gruesome murder story. He had tried to throw the blame for the actual killing on Curry. All his life he has played with children and acted as a child. It has never entered his head that age brings responsibility and that | he is more than a child, His favorite | playmat has been the 5-year-old daughter of his landlady, with whom he has had tea partics. ye he Wayne Wheeler's Mother Dies. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, January 11 ().—Mrs, Ursulla Wheeler, 87, mother of the late Wayne B. Wheeler, pro- ‘hibition leader, died today. | ntal for :\uull)el" Building at Sixth and Louisiana avenue selected for the new house of de- —Star Staff Photo. store in | — | by It | ventive medicine at Harvard, a member | i tention. Subject to Colds to Change Statistics showing that women are Smithics, noted scientist of the Chicago | tendar.ce at the Natonal Influenza Con- ference here, to the fact that the changing mode in feminine attire de- | | mands the wearing of heavier and long- {er_garments. | Women represent three out of five | cases of influenza during the present | | epidemic, according to Dr. Smithies, i who has been appointed a member of | a special committee to study epidemics from the viewpoint of prevention. “Since women are now wearing socks | over their stockings for the sake of ap- | pearance, longer skirts than hereto- | fore and heavier furs, their resistance | | to colds is being steadily lowered,” he | said. | “Contrary to the popular belief that the former styles of scantier attire was | endangering the feminine health, Dr. Smithies said that any study of statis- ties will show that the women are rapidly beccming more susceptibie to colds which are leading to influenza. In the days after the World War, when skirts were at their shortest, the scien- HEAVIER ATTIRE IS BLAMED FOR INFLUENZA SUSCEPTIBILITY| Chicado Scientist Says Women Are More Than Men, Due in Modes. tist said, influenza statistics showed men more susceptible to influenza than men | to be more susceptible to the disease | were attributed yesterday by Dr. Frank | than women, although he attributed | this partly to the fact of the preva- Municipal Tuberculosis Hospital, in at- |lence of the disease in concentration | camps. Dr. Smithies drew up a brief schedule of “don'ts” for women during the pres- | ent influenza epidemic: “Avoid kissing: don't smoke too much when the throat is irritated, and be sure to train your face away from your partner's while dancing.” So far as clothing is concerned, Dr. Smithies advised the women to wear lless or else to take more precaution in wearing socks and furs indoors. Dr. Smithies joined with Dr. G. H. Bigelow, public health commissioner of Massachusetts, who earlier in the day told the conference that in his opinion reports of influenza were so greatly exaggerated that Federal sta- istics and reports seemed to be the “charts of a panic.” In the belief of the Chicago scien- tist, the country is showing unneces- sary alarm over the influenza situa- tion. He expressed doubt as to whether one out of 1000 cases reported are lactual cases of influenza. CHEAP FLU LIQUOR MOVE IS THROTTLED AT CONFERENCE HERE | _(Continued From First Page). are lacking in the means sufficiently to | protect and safeguard public health. | This was sponsored by Dr. McCormick. | Such a system, he declared, would en- | able rural communities to keep pace | in health protection with the most | favored cities. The report on the conference’s com- mittee on epidemiology, submitted by Dr. W. H. Frost, was approved and the conference took a stand on two ques- tions submitted to it in_addition to approving the commitee recommenda- tions. In view of the absence of real knowl- edge as to the causes of influenza, the conference voted it was not advis: able at the present time to adopt a clin- ical definition of influenza. An attempt to do so, in the opinion of some delegates, wculd lead to “unfortunate | resuits” and be the means of spreading additional worry. Favors Detailed Reports. ‘The conference, however, did go on record in favor of including influenza in the list of notifiable diseases and backed up suggestions that detailed re- ports be issusd whenever the disease makes its appearance. Just how these reports should be made to conform to various State regulations which do not require notification, was a question that remains to be threshed out. Dr. Frost in his report recommended that Public Health Service continue and extend its statistical work; that special surveys of morbidity be con- ducted; that State and local health officers undertake special studies of the disease in times of epidemics and stressed also the need of careful clinical studies describing mild or doubtful, as | well as severe, types of influenza. Case of Simple Rules. ‘The first report adopted by the con- | ference was that submitted by its com- mittee cn preventive measures which laid down a code of simple rules for the public to follow in guarding against spread of the discase and as a means of preventing the frequent complications that follow infection. These regulations | follow generally those promulgated by | the Public Health Service at the be- ginning of the epidemic. The preventive rules adopted include advice against mingling freely in crowds, care in personal cleanliness and habi means to prevent the catching of colds | and upver respiratory infections which might lead to influenza, and methods to follow in case of catching influenza. Dr. Simon Flexner of New York, head of the Rockefelelr Institute, chairman of the research committee, in another report acopted by the conference rec- | ommended that laboratory investigatiol be carried on, but he said that his in. vestigations should be contingent upon | continued widespread prevalence. He | suggested that if the epidemic continues | experimentation should be carried on with lower animals. This would includ: inoculation of the animals and experi- mentation with various therapies. Remedies Discussed. | In the matter of prevention and cure | of the disease, the exact nature of | which s not precisely known or under- | stood by the medical world, the e icacy of vaccines, soda treatment, i lation and disinfectant were dis delegaies to the conferen ve had personal experience in the ific matter: Dr. M. J. Rosenau, professor of pre- I | sp of a committee of scientists who re- | cently announced the ery of a| new pneumonia serum, said yesterday | that his committee would meet here at | once. At the same time, Dr. Rosenau, declared that in his opinion “nobody | ever died of influenza,” but that deaths | attributed were in reality due to pncu- monia. He expressed confidence that the stimulus which the present conference | will give to the study of the little-known | disease of influenza will lead eventually to a specific cure, probably a serum. For 10 years, he explained, his comm tee has been at work on an extensive study of both pneumonia and influsnza. | ‘The piesent epidemic, however, he de- Will Rogers Says NEW YORK CITY.—I see where Mr. Coolidge keeps conferring with Mr. Hoover. Looks like Le might get in the cabinet himself. Mr. Kellogg wants to get out after his treaty is signed, so why not let Mr. Coolidge go Secretary of State and Kkeep the same old gang? That Post- master General has been a great booster for aviation, so keep him. And if he wants Bill Donovan in there as Attorney General, I hope there won't be any gathering or united bunch that will try and tell Mr. Hoover not to appoint him. We have had enough of that for one year. | forward by the members independently. each in a separate laboratory. We will | meet once a month to discuss progress. We shall continue, in effect, a head: quarters for information gained by in- vestigators throughout the country.” Discussions during the conference de- veloped a wide divergence of opinion re- garding the present epidemic. Dr. G. H. Bigelow, State health commissioner of Massachusetts, announced that in his opinion no influenza epidemic exist- ed. Dr. Frank Smithies of the Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Hospital and former president of the American Asso- ciation of Physicians was equally frank in expressing the opinion that “perhaps only one case out of 1,000 reported during the epidemic is actually a case of influenza.” Alarming Public Deplored. With no definite knowledge in the medical world as to the dividing line be- tween colds and influenza, Dr. Smithies said it was almost impossible to diag: nose each case correctly. Dr. Bigelow deplored what he termed “alarming the public” over the present situation, while other scientists present vigorous backed up the policy of the Public Health Service in taking the public en- tirely into its confidence regarding the widespread prevalence of the disease. Dr. Parish, health officer of Los Anrgeles, in reporting on the first outbreak of thz epidemic in_ California, praised the co- operation of the press in arousing the public to the danger of carelessness in the face of infection. There is a lesson to be taught in the prevailing epidemic, he said, and health officers would lose their usefulness and be lacking in effi- ciency if they failed to take the public into their confidence. So far as the mcde of transmission of the disease is known, Prof. Edwin O. Gordon of the University of Chicago, said there is no reason to believe it is conveyed by water, miik or through the lower animals. All information, he ointed out, emphasizes the importancs of the human being in spreading influ- enza. Controlled experiments on ani- mals show 1t is difficult to cause infec- tion, he said, and there is little or no evidence indicating that influenza is caused by “indirect contact.” RETIRED U. S. PRINTER, P. L. HERNDON, IS DEAD Had Served Government for 27 Set | Years; Funeral Services for Tomorrow. P. L. Herndon, 69, retired employe of the Government Printing Office, where he. worked for about 27 years, died at his residence in the Netherland Apart- ments, 1860 Columbia road, yesterday after a sudden illness. He was retired from Government service three years ago. Mr. Herndon, who had resided in Washington for many years, was a member of the Pentalpha Lodge of Masons. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Moselle C. Herndon; a daughter, Mrs. | B. L. Stafford of Brooklyn, N. and son, Comdr. Linton Herndon, Unil states Navy, stationed in Breoklyn. bad as the “finest opportunity” they | have yet had to study material which | is available only during epidemics. “After the committee meets,” Dr. f Funeral services will be conducted at the residence tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Inierment will be in Glen- wood Cemetery. I | Rosenau_said, “investigations will go| MEXIGAN PAPERS ~ TRACED TOBAKER !Journalist Declares Docu- ' ments Taken From Mexico Intended for Government. Another chapter was made public yes- | terday afternoon on the activities of the Senate committee which for more than a yczr has had under investigation Mexican and Russian forged docu- | ments. when it developed that a State Deparument official had appeared before { the committee and told of the disap- pearance and subseguent recovery of 00 or more papers belonging to the American embassy in Mexico City. They were turned over. the testimony said, by George Barr Baker, a former new. paper man, but where Mr. Baker got them was not made clear. Incidentally, the testimony showed that Senator Borah of Idaho, who with rtor Norris of Nebraska, was named in documents published Wednesday as having received $100,000 each from Soviet Russia, had demanded an offi- cial investigation by the American Gov- ernment to determine who forged these papers which were branded as spurious by Chairman Reed of the committec. Borah said he had initiated steps to have the Russian government find uot who the forger was. The committee’s record also included a typewritten note purporting to show that the Soviet Ambassador at Paris had authorized payments to Ivy Lee, who owns a New York publicity organi- zation, and who recently wrote a book on Rus Typewriter Believed Clue. ‘The record likewise embodied a state- ment from Chairman Reed that “there is reason to believe that the typewriter on which they (the documents) were written is one of those which was in the Soviet embassy at Paris.” Beyond this, | however, he said the committee had been unable to find out who manufac- tured the papers. Under questioning by the committee, headed by Senator Reed, Republican, of Pennsylvania, Arthur Bliss Lane, chief of the Mexican affairs division of the State Department, recounted that a year ago the State Department, after negotiations, obtained almost 300 papers from Baker which had come from Mexico, and 200 of which were genuine documents taken from the American emba Mr. Lane said he did not know how Mr. Baker had come into possession of | the papers. but he said he had been in- formed that Baker had arranged in | Mexico to obtain them, although he had not actually brought them to this coun= try. “Drastic” Methods Employed. Senator Johnson, Republican of Call- fornia, asked if it did not require “con- | siderable effort on the part of the State Department” to obtain the documents i Mr. Baker. T was not here at the time,” Lane replied, “but I understand that was the case.” “They obtained these documents from Mr. Baker in a rather drastic fashion,” Johnson insisted. “Well, I think they obtained them in a roundabout way.” Lane answered. Advised in New York of the Senate de- velopment, Baker repeated that he had not brcught the documents to this country. “I did not bring those documents into this country,” said Mr. Baker. “I was influential in having them sent into this country to an agency of this Government. for the express purpose of being turned over to this Government. They were not in my possession. No effort was required to have them turned jover to the Government because th= lonly interest I had in them was in | getting them to our Government when I had learned of their existence.” Questioning also developed testimony that Mr. Baker was a “sort of liason officer between Mr. Hoover and the press” on the recent Latin American good will tour. Among the Baker docu- ments were some “spurious” ones, Mr. |Lane said, purporting to show un- | friendly acts by this Government toward Mexico. Who removed the docu- | ments from the American embassy was ! not revealed. These documents were | different from the Mexican documents i published in a number of Hearst news- papers about _a year ago. Chairman Reed, in reply to Senator Norris, said that the committee had a “ciue” which he hoped would Ilcad to | the discovery of the forger of the Rus- ian - documents. Senator Bofah re- quested that the State Department ssk forgers. Lee Credit Is Established. ‘The name of Ivy Lee was found in- two typewritten memorandas, which. Senator Reed said he had received re- cently. He did not disclose the source of the papers. One of the memoranda,- purporting to give the substance of & letter by the Soviet Ambassador Rako- wisky at Paris to one Kempner of the Commercial Bank for North Europe in Paris, was recorded in the committee testimony as saying in_ substance: “Please pay to Mr. Ivy Lee, or the person duly authorized by him. the amount indicated to cover all his ex- penses contemplated by the special ac- count of Narkomindel N 352 M. W. “At the same time notify officially Mr. Ivy Lee, or his representative, that there has been put at his disposition a - | complementary credit provided for by his arrangement with Moscow. “These complementary credits and the increase in the normal amount of the perjodical payments should also bes put to the special account of Narko ';;.‘f“"f,‘ N 361 M W concerning Senator, rah.” BAND CONCERT. Band concert by the United States Marine Band Orchestra, Marine Bar- racks, at 4 o'clock today. Taylor Bran- son, leader; Arthur S. Witcomb, second leader. Program: | March, “Silver Jubilee" Overture, “Seraglio™ Intermezzo, “Marione Excerpts from “The Inquisitive Wom ‘Wolf-Ferrari (a) “Funeral March of a Mari- onet” Gounod (b‘l Humeresque, a” . .. Valse, “The Debutante’ Suite, “From India” I. The Bayaderes. . T 1II. By the Ganges. Iv. Marines’ hymn, “The Halls of Montezuma.” “The Star Spangled Banner.” Santelmann ~ MONG the visitors in Washington over the week end there are doubtless a number of people who would like to attend some church on Sunday. The best way to learn where the churches are located, and what services will be held, is to consult the church pages of Satur- day's Star. Thereon will be found a denomina- tional arrahgement of most of Washington's Churches, the location, pastor's name, subjects’ and special music. the Soviet government to help find the |